Upper Dublin To Receive $463K From State For Massive Traffic Signal Upgrades

Governor Tom Wolf announced Monday that 109 municipalities, including several in Montgomery County, will receive $12 million to underwrite the costs of upgrading traffic signals under the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s “Green Light-Go” program.

In total, 20 townships around Montgomery County will receive some form of funding thanks to the initiative.

Made possible by Act 89, the state’s transportation funding plan, the program establishes partnership agreements between municipalities and PennDOT through which municipalities request up to 50-percent funding for traffic-signal projects, according to Wolf's office.

“State and local partnerships like this are critical to improving traffic flow and safety across the state, and this program helps us meet that goal,” Governor Wolf said in a statement. “Through this investment, communities across the state will benefit from upgraded signals and intersections.”

Under the Green Light-Go program, PennDOT said that projects on corridors with fewer than 10,000 vehicles per day will be managed by the municipality, while PennDOT will manage any project with signals on corridors that have greater than 10,000 vehicles per day.

Both types of projects will require a 50 percent match from the municipality.

The following Montgomery County municipalities have received funding:

• Abington Township — $25,308 to replace LED modules at 20 intersections.
• Cheltenham Township — $80,180 to install GPS time clocks at six intersections along Limekiln Pike and Easton Road.; to install a traffic signal mast arm at the intersection of Ashbourne Road and New Second Street.; to perform system integration at the intersections of Greenwood Avenue and Rice Mill Road.; to upgrade pedestrian facilities at the intersections of Limekiln Pike and Church Road and Limekiln Pike and Easton Road.; and for the study, development and construction of safety improvements at the intersection of Shoppers Lane and Ogontz Avenue.
• East Norriton - $143,789 to install a fiber optic network and connect 15 intersections into PennDOT’s traffic management center.
• Franconia Township — $27,500 to install a radar detection system at the intersections of Route 113 (Harleysville Pike) and Route 1001 (Allentown Road), Route 113 (Harleysville Pike) and Godshall Road, Route 113 (Harleysville Pike) and Route 1011 (Cowpath Ed), and Route 113 (Harleysville Pike) and Route 1007 (Schoolhouse Road).
• Hatboro Borough — $771,918 to upgrade the intersections of Route 2009 (Byberry Road) and Route 2040 (Warminster Road) and Jacksonville Road and Montgomery Avenue.
• Lansdale Borough– $185,150 to replace LED modules and improve traffic signals at eight intersections along Route 63, one intersection along Route 2004 and one intersection along Route 2006.
• Lower Gwynedd Township — $132,425 to improve the traffic signals at the intersections of Bethlehem Pike and Dager Road, Tennis Avenue and Norristown Road, and Bethlehem Pike and Tennis Avenue.
• Lower Merion Township — $503,947 to upgrade and install three adaptive signals at the intersections of Route 30 (Lancaster Avenue) and Old Wynnewood Road, Route 3044 (Wynnewood Road) and Penn Road and Route 3044 (Wynnewood Road) and Williams Road, and to upgrade existing loop detectorswith video detection systems at 45 intersections.
• Lower Moreland Township – $32,625 to install emergency pre-emption devices at the intersections of Huntingdon Pike and Welsh Road, Huntingdon Pike and Red Lion Road, Huntingdon Pike and Byberry Road, Byberry Road and Pine Road, and Byberry Road and Buck Road.
• Lower Providence Township – $1,041 to replace LED modules at the intersection of Egypt Road and Surrey Lane.
• Lower Salford Township – $16,868 to replace LED modules at five intersections along Route 63 (Main Street); eight intersections along Route 63, two intersections along Route 113 and one intersection along Route 1058.
• New Hanover Township — $6,291 to replace LED modules at the intersection of Route 633 (Charlotte Street) and Swamp Pike, and for maintenance improvements at the intersections of Charlotte Street and Swamp Pike, Layfield Road and Hoffmansville Road, Big Road and New Hanover Square Road, and Charlotte Street and Buchert Road.
• Royersford Borough — $233,358 to upgrade the traffic signals at the intersections of Main Street and 4th Street and Main Street and 5th Street.
• Towamencin Township — $52,127 to replace the existing traffic controller and install uninterrupted power supplies systems at the intersection of Route 1001 (Allentown Road) and Fretz Road/Derstine Road.
• Upper Dublin Township – $463,632 to upgrade the traffic signal at the intersection of Limekiln Pike and Dillon Road/Meetinghouse Road; install adaptive signal control technology at six intersections along Pennsylvania Avenue; and replace existing loop detectors with a video detection system as well as replace vehicular and LED modules at five intersections along Route 2017 (Susquehanna Road).
• Upper Moreland Township — $34,800 to replace existing loop detectors with video detection systems at the intersections of Easton Road and Blair Mill Road and Easton Road and Fitzwatertown Road.
• Upper Providence Township — $45,508 to replace LED modules at 19 intersections along Egypt Road.
• Whitemarsh Township – $593,312 to upgrade and widen the intersection at Route 3014 (Joshua Road) and Route 3003 (Stenton Avenue) to provide left turn lanes on all four approaches.
• Whitpain Township — $14,355 to replace LED modules at the intersections of Route 2001 (Morris Road) and Route 2016 (School Road), Route 2001 (Morris Road) and Tournament Drive, Route 73 (Skippack Pike) and Union Meeting Road, Route 73 (Skippack Pike) and Route 3012 (Walton Road) and Butler Pike and Route 3001 (Norristown Road).
• Worcester Township — $4,725 to improve maintenance at 13 intersections along Route 73, Route 363, Route 3006, Route 2001 and Route 3001.